Bartender's bling

ken erickson

ken erickson

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As many may know I enjoy recreating some of the older sheffield patterns from time to time.
Here is one finished up (not available) that is based on a Geo Wostenholm and Son pattern.

The pattern is a 3 5/8 closed length champagne knife or as many refer to it as a bartender's knife.
This knife features a foil cutter blade, fancy corkscrew(as apposed to a twisted wire type), spear master and pen secondary.
Blade steel is CPM154, integral frame/bolsters
Antique Tortoise shell backed up with 22kt gold leaf
coined/milled center liner.

Thanks for looking and please feel free to post pictures or discuss your favorite Champagne knives here in this thread!
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Wow, just stunning Ken. Your pieces never cease to amaze me. If there is a grail knife for me, it would be ANYTHING made by you! Bravo Sir, Bravo!
 
That is awesome! I'd love to have one like that on my bar!
 
I'm speechless here and that's rare.................. That's spectacular.

Syn
 
Wow Ken, that is stunning, my jaw nearly hit the keyboard. Amazing work :thumbup:
 
That milling in the centre adds a lot to the aesthetics, master touch! Is antique/reclaimed Tortoise hard to come by these days and tricky to work with? I like it before any other of the lavish/costly handle options.

Thanks, Will
 
Thanks for showing us this one, Ken. Stunning.

I appreciate the care you take not only with your knives, but in the photographs so that we can see so many of the finer details.

The coloration of this one certainly complements the "bling" of its many carefully-fitted tools. Another amazing knife. :thumbup:

~ P.
 
Thanks guys and gals for the kind comments! They are very much appreciated.


willgoy said:
Is antique/reclaimed Tortoise hard to come by these days and tricky to work with?
Thanks, Will
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Will,
I was very fortunate to have been able to get the antique shell from a very helpful material supplier. I have a VERY limited supply on hand. It will be set aside for that one or two special knives.

As far as working with the shell I found that it is very heat sensitive as many natural materials are. Drilling, shaping, sanding and buffing was relatively easy. Much more so than Ivory I think. I had a harder time learning to deal with the gold leaf! Beats(pun intended) me how they can get gold so thin that it will float in air.
 
Ken,
I wrote this before: seeing how you take the challenge of old knives, following your work till the final astonishing product, is one of the best things of this subforum.
I would never get a knife with such a fancy corkscrew (or, possibly, with any corkscrew at all) but this knife is great. The slenderness of the main blade, and the shape of the foil cutter, look really great...and tortoise shell, properly "done", is really eye catching :)

Fausto
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